{"id":90,"date":"2011-09-20T22:29:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T05:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/?p=90"},"modified":"2011-09-20T22:30:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T05:30:22","slug":"1-million-low-income-youth-to-benefit-from-microsoft-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/2011\/09\/20\/1-million-low-income-youth-to-benefit-from-microsoft-generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Million Low-Income, U.S. Youth to Benefit from Microsoft Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. launched a three-year program to ensure that 1 million students from low-income families in the United States receive the benefits of software, hardware and broadband Internet service. \u00a0They are working with the FCC, One Economy and the\u00a0Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) to provide PCs, software and broadband access.\u00a0 According to this release, &#8220;In the U.S., approximately 9.5 million students are digitally excluded outside of their schools. According to the Federal Reserve, these students have a high school graduation rate six to eight percentage points lower than those who have home access to the Internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Potential Speaker &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Anthony Salcito, vice president, Worldwide Education for Microsoft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/publicsector\/ww\/programs\/shape-the-future\/Pages\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Information on the Shape the Future Program can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/microsoft-commits-to-bringing-technology-access-to-1-million-low-income-youth-2011-09-20?reflink=MW_news_stmp\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Commits to Bringing Technology Access to 1 Million Low-Income Youth &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. launched a three-year program to ensure that 1 million students from low-income families in the United States receive the benefits of software, hardware and broadband Internet service. \u00a0They are working with the FCC, One Economy and the\u00a0Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) to provide PCs, software and broadband access.\u00a0 According to this release, &#8220;In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-youth-potential-speakers","tag-anthony-salcito","tag-microsoft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MDHS-1s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viodi.com\/bookmarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}